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Boys' love has been listed as one of the Language and literature good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 23, 2021.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the two participants in a yaoi relationship are referred to as seme ('top') and uke ('bottom'), terms derived from martial arts that were later appropriated as Japanese LGBT slang?

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This article has been mentioned by multiple media organizations:

Kristy L. Valenti (2005). "Stop, My Butt Hurts! - The Yaoi Invasion". The Comics Journal. Archived from the original on 5 May 2006.
RCMP (January 13, 2006). "Dangers of Hentai Fact Sheet (pulled)". National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre.

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Freibert, Finley (15 November 2020). "Embedded Niche Overlap". Journal of Anime and Manga Studies. 1 (1).

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List of yaoi games was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 13 January 2018 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Boys' love. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Text and/or other creative content from Bara (genre) was copied or moved into Yaoi with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

Text and/or other creative content from Yaoi fandom was copied or moved into Yaoi with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

On 18 August 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from Yaoi to Boys' love. The result of the discussion was moved.